Shall We Walk?

by Pura-Santillan-Castrence

There are all manners of walking. The ambling walking of the absorbed lovers, while satisfactory from the point of views of giving opportunity for sentimental discourse, is not so from the point of view of exercise. From the latter viewpoint, a brisk morning walk is the thing. You need not even plan it as a formal program. It is a relatively simple thing to walk to the office, or if that is too much because where you work is quite distant from your home, walk part of the way. Either choice you take, however, makes it worthwhile by deriving from it the exercise you need. Walk vigorously and enthusiastically. You can almost actually feel the blood circulating in your body with a briskness equal to the vim and zest you put into your walking.

Some enthusiasts have it that a good habitual walker is also a good habitual thinker. Perhaps the situation is a bit far-fecthed considered as direct cause and effect. Clean thinking may come as a result of good blood-circulation an general body health, to which may have contributed the exercise derived from walking improves the eyesight. Although when the walks are done out in the country, where a person has to look far into the distance most of the time, at hill-peaks and tree-tops or upon green grass across the brooks, the far sight focusing affords rest and is good for the eyes.

Shall We Walk?

by Pura-Santillan-Castrence

Walk and be healthy. Walk and save money. Why be a slave of His Excellency, the cochero, when it is only a matter of a ten or a fifteen minute walk? Walk, instead, and see the city sights at close range. Many things of varied interest will attract you. Show-windows will engross you if you are an addicted windowshopper. Perhaps you intend to buy a pair of shoes next pay-day. Or a ves, do, or a barong tagalog for a friend or hubby, a bag for little Wifie. Window-shopping now will help you later.

If you don’t care particularly to shop merely with your eyes, if window-shopping only gives you pain and longings you never hope to see fulfilled, there are other things besides windows to make a walk interesting. People, for instance. What o mother crowned of interesting human beings a short walk can afford you. You see all types, dressy fops with their uselessness written all over their persons, worried looking fathers of families, frowsy dames with eyes that tell stories of hopes and frustration, eager youths and pretty girls flirting with each other openly or subtly, but always charmingly, because they are young. You see an old woman with her bundle of knickknacks, and you wonder how many grandchildren will shout for joy on her arrival. There is a vicious-looking beggar whom you evade, because he appears more as your-life-or your –money type than a bonafide pauper who needs your help.